1. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 (and 3) CCIRN XiAn 26 August 2007 David West DANTE

2. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 7th generation of pan-European research network infrastructure Project partners: 30 NRENs and over 3500 research and education establishments Funded jointly by NRENs and European Commission Project timescale September 2004 - August 2008 –Extension to Q2 2009 –Four year project, GEANT3 planned from Q3 2009 to Q2 2013

3. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Current topology 2006/2007

4. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 Connect. Communicate. Collaborate 25 POPs 11600 km of fibre + 140 ILA sites 50+ x (own) 10G lambdas Additional leased 10 and 2.5 Gbps circuits Router tender underway NREN accesses at up to 10Gbps (+ backup) + P2P connections to other R&E networks: Abilene, ESnet, CA*net4, SINET, TENET, RedCLARA, EUMEDCONNECT, TEIN2

5. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Overall increase of ~50% From 59 to 88 10 Gb wavelength spans

6. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GEANT2 operational services Basic IP access via the GEANT2 router GEANT+ service: a point to point (P2P) service typically of GE paths within a 10 GE access Managed wavelength service: P2P service of full rate 10 Gb wavelength

7. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate P2P Circuits

8. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 P2P Circuit Orders –by Project LHC: –3 x GE – 9 x 10Gbps DEISA –5 x 10Gbps Phosphorus –4 x GE EXPReS (eVLBI) –4 x GE LHC DEISA EXPReS Phosphorus Other

9. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 P2P User Group 1: Large Hadron Collider Providing 10Gbps circuits on the primary Tier 0 to Tier 1 routes: 9 delivered so far Additional 1Gbps circuits provided on some Tier1-Tier1 routes IP backbone supports further international data transfers

10. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 P2P User Group 2: eVLBI Aim to connect all European telescopes using dedicated 1Gbps wavelengths –Already connected at 1Gbps via GÉANT2 Medicina (Italy) Cambridge (UK) Jodrell Bank (UK) Torun (Poland)

11. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Example of new service developments Provision of PerfSONAR Monitoring services –In an Environment that is: Multi-domain Using multiple transmission technologies

12. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Problem space Point A PointB Domain A Domain B Domain C Goal: (near) real-time monitoring (link status) of constituent DomainLinks (and links between domains) and whole end-to-end Link A-B. E2ELink A-B

13. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Approach Point A PointB Domain A Domain B Domain C E2ELink A-B perfSONAR MP or MA perfSONAR MP or MA E2Emon correlator perfSONAR Measurement Point (MP) or Measurement Archive (MA) DomainLink and (partial) ID_Link info Weathermap view for users E2ECU operators

14. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT3 (from 2009) Planning has started! Building on conclusions of EARNEST foresight study Exploit and extend dark fibre investment Focus on improving performance for users: –further service development –Inter-regional co-operation